Saying goodbye to Being Mary Jane

If you are fan of the hit TV Series Being Mary Jane then you will know that Season 5 will actually be the final season. To say I am disappointed will be a lie. In fact I was relieved to find out that this is the last I will be seeing of MJ, Cara and crew and their office shenanigans. All good things must come to an end.

The entire season 5 of Being Mary Jane has been on my mind for a while now. I am sure I must be one of the few people that were not impressed by it. In the beginning I loved everything about Gabrielle Union’s character and I cared more about her than I did about the other characters. She stood out for me. There was something about her drive, ambition, assertiveness as well as authority that I could relate to. What was even crazy and unimaginably accurate was how my relationships with men were close to all the encounters she had. Every woman has come across “a David” in her life. Sometimes the experiences are so real that you fear sharing them with others because women are the ones painted as being failures when relationships quickly go south.

I have never understood how some women get stuck dating married men, but MJ was almost there and to watch it all unravel kinda made sense and made me realize how unpredictable life is and that even a put together woman like MJ made the worst of decisions when it came to men. The drama and the lies that come with having an affair are just mind boggling. Her experiences were certainly not unique to her alone.

I can count the number of times my friends and I have often wondered what is about black women and their 30s and 40s and why dating is such a struggle. MJ’s toxic relationship with David reminded me of my relationship with my ex and how we just could not seem to get our act together or rather in my case he could not get his act together and decide what he wanted out of our relationship. It is certainly not newsflash to have this kind of experience but it is crazy to realize how many other women out there are in the same boat as yourself. MJ was the face of our joy when we are in love, how much we go the extra mile, she became the face of our pain when we lose the ones we love and how we struggle openly asking for help, she was also the face of success and how not to apologize for having a voice and ambition. So she was no all bad.

Towards the end the writers failed us by not allowing Mary Jane’s character to grow. They were signs she could find happiness in the end but that all soon became a figment of my imagination as they continuously portrayed MJ as angry, bitter and confused woman who could escape her bad habits or allow herself to find healing and move on. No matter how much damage a man can do to you at some point there is light in the journey. The story line lost it’s plot. Plus we know the drama around how the show execs could not reach a salary agreement that was suitable for Gabrielle Union, so in essence there is a possibility we are now  suffering because of home affairs issues within the production team and their lead cast member.

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The things I will miss

• Mary Jane’s wardrobe is too die for but of course she has a sexy body so anything would look great on her

• Cara deserves happiness. I hope her Ben 10 finally proposes to her. She has invested way too much in his career or it not to pay off, right? Plus they would make gorgeous babies.

• I will definitely miss Nici. She baffles me. I doubt people like Nice exist. If they do I may do some home work and try my best to understand how one gets themselves into that kind of mess.Before you start feeling sorry for her please do not forget that MJ gave her so many opportunities to sort her life out.

• I surprisingly started to fall for Justin, only towards the end. At least he knew MJ’s tendencies to sabotage a good thing and he stood by her.

• Lastly and definitely not least the leading men in this series were nothing by eye candy over load. At least as a single woman I could console myself and drool over David and Justin every time they appeared on my screen. I could not help myself..lol

What will you miss about Being Mary Jane? Do you think the series should be saved?